Eat These 5 Superfoods For a Healthy Brain At The Right Time.

Follow this day long plan to give your brain the added advantage that only these foods can give.

To keep your brain healthy and buzzing all day long not only is it important to include brainy bites (brain superfoods) in our diet, but it is equally important to eat them at the right times of the day to maximise their benefit.

1. Cinnamon Early Morning

Cinnamon had early morning also keeps you blood sugar stable through the day.

Research clearly suggests that both the taste and smell of this spice significantly improves scores on memory tests. Two compounds found in cinnamon – proanthocyanidins and cinnamaldehyde lead to greater cerebral blood flow, thus allowing for better processing of information and a sharper more efficient brain.

How to have it: Add just a pinch to your morning cup of tea/coffee or have cinnamon water first thing on after getting up (to make: squeeze juice of half a lemon, and add a pinch of cinnamon to a cup of warm water).

2. Eggs for Breakfast

Eggs in breakfast help you keep your weight in check too!

Yes, an omelette breakfast is a smart choice for our brain. That because eggs give us choline, an essential B vitamin that helps produce acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in mental clarity, memory and logical reasoning. In fact low levels of acetylcholine have been found to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease too.

How to eat it: Have an egg a day (unless otherwise advised). Just one egg yolk has as much as 125 mg of choline (about one-third of our daily intake requirement).

3. Yogurt for Lunch

Yogurt is a great tummy saver too!

Include yogurt in your lunch meal because it contains amino acid tyrosine, that helps perk us up, and is also needed for the production of the neurotransmitters dopamine and noradrenalin, both of which help keep our brain buzzing, happy and healthy.

How to eat it: Sprinkle yogurt with sunflower seeds, chopped nuts or wheat germ for a pleasant crunch. Have at least a cup a day every day for lunch.

How to eat it: Munch on them in the evening; pair with a few raisins or anjeer(figs) or make a walnuts pesto sauce (mix up walnuts instead of pine nuts with olive oil, garlic, salt and fresh basil) and have with a cracker. Have at least 6-7 halves every day.

5. Turmeric Milk at Night

Add just half a tablespoon of pure haldi to warm milk at night.

Have the yellow wonder – haldi milk just before you go to sleep. That’s because turmeric contains more than two dozen anti-inflammatory compounds that help spice up our brain, keep memory sharp and Alzheimers away. Curcumin in it known to boost brain proliferation and help it heal itself.

How to drink it: Add just half a tablespoon of pure haldi to warm milk at night.